Public bug reported: i've been starting down the migration path from one lts release to another and trying out vm installs using fai 3.4.8ubuntu2 on precise hosts. the vms (ganeti-managed) are built using fai dirinstall.
it appears that upstart in precise behaves differently than lucid with respect to chroots (looks like it started supporting chroot "sessions" in natty). in my testing this caused problems with both lucid and precise guests. when performing a lucid dirinstall i ended up w/atd and acpid processes running outside the chroot. with a precise dirinstall init complained that it had had its "Configuration directory deleted" (referencing the path to the chroot) and was left in a somewhat confused state, logging errs like: init: Failed to spawn network-interface (tap0) pre-start process: unable to execute: No such file or directory on vm bring-up. my workaround for this was to add a hook to updatebase containing: fai-divert -a /sbin/initctl should /sbin/initctl be added to the list of automatic diversions in updatebase? thank you. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: fai-client 3.4.8ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-25.40-generic 3.2.18 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-25-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Jul 5 15:36:35 2012 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh SourcePackage: fai UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) modified.conffile..etc.fai.fai.conf: [modified] mtime.conffile..etc.fai.fai.conf: 2012-06-19T10:48:39.830062 ** Affects: fai (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1021506 Title: dirinstall on 12.04 appears to require `fai-divert -a /sbin/initctl` To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fai/+bug/1021506/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs